It was a marquee proposal by Jay H. Walder, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority during the relatively flush times of 2009: Replace the MetroCard with a computer chip-enabled "smart card" that would speed up boarding times and save the agency millions of dollars a year.
Lucky for Judith Regan she left a big publishing house when the book business was relatively flush with cash.
Concentrating very wealthy people with lots of disposable income in cities with already burdened housing stock (even if Long Island City itself is relatively flush with lots of new towers) is a recipe for trouble.
In other parts of the developed world, people are retiring as planned, because of relatively flush state and corporate pensions that await them.
Before the company grew relatively flush from investors' cash and hundreds of thousands of customers on more than 5,000 campuses, it had to resort to creative bootstrapping.
"Asian monetary systems have been relatively flush with cash and growth here is typically being funded by earnings — household and corporate, rather than debt funding".
Again, when the state is relatively flush, that's not as tense as when state revenue is low or the economy is tight.
While the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation regularly has to close down troubled small banks (including five on Friday), in aggregate, the industry is relatively flush.
Other, relatively flush Europeans are trying to make "Greece the Florida of Europe," Theodore Pelagidis, a Greek economist at the University of Piraeus, told me, referring in particular to plans to turn islands into expensive retirement homes for wealthy people from other parts of the continent.
Sergei Vybornov, Alrosa's chief executive, said that he had helped persuade the central bank of Angola — which, like Russia, is still relatively flush with oil money — to buy 30percentt of the production of Angola's diamond mines, keeping these stones off the market.
